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Clint Willisâs book tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everestâs first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart-breaking loss. Their leader was the boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington. His inner circle â which came to be know as Boningtonâs Boys â included a dozen who became climbingâs greatest generation. Boningtonâs Boys gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly terrible risks on now-legendary expeditions to the worldâs most fearsome peaks. And they paid an enormous price for their achievements. Most of Boningtonâs Boys died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: Was it worth it?
The Boys of Everest, based on interviews with surviving climbers and other individuals, as well as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and letters, provides the closest thing to an answer that weâll ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington's Boys found in the mountains, as well as an understanding of what they lost there.
About: Clint Willisâs book tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everestâs first ascent.
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